Book 1, Chapter 3 Summary

Isabelle and Amory have an argument at Isabelle's house. Amory leaves early the next morning and considers the relationship over. Amory is in danger of failing his classes and has to find a tutor. That fall, his father dies, and Amory returns home for a short time to help his mother settle the family finances. At Christmas, Amory visits Monsignor Darcy and expresses his wish to drop out of college. He returns to Princeton but is not interested in his studies or social life. Some of his poems are published in one of the school's literary magazines.

At the end of the year, Kerry Holiday leaves school to join the war in France. Amory goes to New York City with his friends and meets many girls who work in the theater. Amory gets drunk and backs out of a date with...